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Role of Public Libraries in

Development of Digitally

Inclusive Communities

Liga Kursite Masena Project Coordinator

Culture Information Systems Centre, Latvia

Public library development project «Father’s Third Son»

The sixth annual Telecentre-Europe Summit

25 October 2013, Malta

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Culture Information Systems Centre

ICT, training and public access projects

to enable free and equitable access

to information, resources and cultural heritage

stored in libraries, archives, museums

and other cultural institutions

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«Father’s Third Son» (3td project)

Infrastructure

Training

Content & Resources

Advocacy & Communication

Impact Assessment

through strengthening and

using capacities of public libraries to facilitate better

and procreative use of resources offered by free access to IT and

the Internet among users with

the aim to improve their quality of life

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Tech Access

Info Access

ICT Skills

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Number of public libraries in EU

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Annual spending on libraries per capita

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2009 – 2014

2013 0000/2013

WRITTEN DECLARATION

submitted pursuant to Rule 123 of the Rules of Procedure

on the impact of public libraries in European communities

Hannu Takkula (ALDE), Maria Badia i Cutchet (S&D), Vilija Blinkevičiūtė (S&D), Andrew Duff

(ALDE), Cătălin-Sorin Ivan (S&D), Morten Løkkegaard (ALDE), Marie-Thérèse Sanchez-Schmid

(PPE), Marietje Schaake (ALDE), Helga Trüpel (Verts/ALE), Marie-Christine Vergiat (GUE/NGL),

Sabine Verheyen (PPE)

Lapse date:

PE000.000v00-00

EN EN

0000/2013

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Economic value and impact of public

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